cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib url.c

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 6 23:12:30 UTC 2007


On Tuesday,  6 March 2007 at 23:43:07 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:41:54AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>>>  Modified files:
>>>    usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib url.c
>>>  Log:
>>>  Invoke tar(1) with the -p option when installing a package
>>>  from an URL (i.e., do it the same way as when installing
>>>  from a file).  This fixes the lossage of the setuid bits.
>>>  It wasn't a problem before because GNU tar(1) implied the
>>>  -p option for root, but BSD tar(1) doesn't do that.
>>
>> Hmmm...  This might actually be considered a bsdtar bug.
>> I'll look into it.
>
> That behavior of BSD tar(1) surprised me, to be honest.

I'm very much in favour of keeping the discrepancies (and surprises!)
between gnutar and bsdtar to a minimum.  Should we remove this one?

Greg
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